Urine Tracker

Check your Health from your Urine Color

Synopsis:

The color and density, even the smell of your urine, can reveal factors regarding your state of health.

Key Points:

Vitamins will often make your pee appear a brighter yellow color.

Foamy urine can be an indication that you have too much of a protein, such as albumin, in your urine, or it could be a sign of kidney disease.

Main Digest

Urine is medically defined as a liquid by-product of the body secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination (or micturition) and excreted through the urethra. Urinating is how the body gets rid of unwanted or unneeded substances in the blood. Human urine together with human feces are collectively defined as human waste or human excreta.

The consistency, odor, and color of your urine are often indicators of your lifestyle and health condition. Each of these signs can vary depending on what you have been eating and drinking to medical diseases.

Your urine gets its yellow color from a pigment called urochrome. That color normally varies from pale yellow to deep amber, depending on the concentration of the urine. Taking certain oral medications can turn your urine anything from fluorescent green to blue, and eating carrots can give it an orange hue. Vitamins will often make your pee appear a brighter yellow color, and a disease called porphyria can cause your pee to be the color of port wine. Beets, blackberries, rhubarb, fava beans, and berries are among some of the foods notorious for affecting the color of your urine. Severe dehydration can also produce urine the color of amber.

Urine Colors:

Dark Yellow

Black

Blue

Brown

Clear

Cloudy

Green

Orange

Pink

Purple

Red